This clattery new comedy by the actor and writer Simon Paisley Day takes three mismatched London couples and sticks them together in a remote cottage in Wales.

Can they endure this weekend together? Can we endure two hours with them, even if they’re played by actors as fine as Tamzin Outhwaite, Barnaby Kay, Sarah Hadland, Robert Webb, Issy van Randwyck and Nicholas Rowe?

I’ll confess I was mentally checking the train times back to Paddington almost as soon as Outhwaite and Kay arrived as Briony and Keith, a pair of uptight, left-wing teachers struggling with her hormones and his horniness